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Criminal Justice Faculty & Staff
FULL-TIME
FACULTY
L. Edward Day, Ph.D., Program Coordinator
E-mail: LED7@psu.edu
Dr. Day received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1992.
An award winning teacher, he left a teaching position at University Park to join the Altoona faculty in the Fall of 2001. His early published research focused on delinquency prevention. Recent research has focused on victimization and genocide. He is a founding member of the Genocide Research Project (http://www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide) and a founding editor of the journal War Crimes, Genocide, & Crimes Against Humanity (http://www.war-crimes.org). Dr. Day maintains his home page at http://www.personal.psu.edu/led7/.
Michael Arter, Ph. D.
E-mail: MLA14@psu.edu
Dr. Arter is an assistant
professor of criminal justice at Penn State Altoona. He joined the
criminal justice faculty after receiving his doctorate from Indiana University
of Pennsylvania in 2005. Dr. Arter had an 18-year career in law enforcement
prior to his return to the academic setting. His teaching and research
interests focus on law enforcement, drugs and drugs policies, police stress,
ethics, police mentoring, and criminological theory.
Amir Marvasti, Ph.D.
E-mail: ABM11@psu.edu
Dr. Marvasti is an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at
Penn State Altoona. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Florida. He has published in the Quinnipiac Law Review, Qualitative Inquiry,
and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. His research interests include race and
ethnicity, deviance, and social theory. He is the author of Being Homeless:
Textual and Narrative Constructions, Qualitative Research in Sociology, and
Middle Eastern Lives in America (forthcoming with Karyn McKinney). His current
research focuses on the immigration experiences of Middle Eastern Americans and
their treatment in the criminal justice system
Dr. Sheryl L. Van Horne
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
E-mail:
PART-TIME
FACULTY
Robert S. Donaldson, Esquire
Attorney Donaldson
received his Bachelor of Science degree in law enforcement and corrections from
The Pennsylvania State
University and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School
of Law, Miami, Florida. He has
served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Office of
Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since June 2003. In the
Organized Crime and Narcotics section he is responsible for prosecuting narcotics,
money laundering, and other cases including asset forfeitures matters
under the Controlled Substances Act. He is a member of the
American, Pennsylvania, and Blair County Bar Associations as well as the
Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. Mr. Donaldson serves on boards of
directors for regional and national companies as well as a number of non-profit
organizations.
Scott A. Kelly, M.S.
E-mail:
sak229@psu.edu Office: 106 Smith Bldg.
Mr. Kelly received his Master's degree from
Florida Metropolitan University, Tampa, Florida and completed his
undergraduate degree in criminal justice with a minor in psychology from Penn
State Altoona in December 2002. His research interests include academic
advising, the effectiveness of community policing strategies and the prevention
of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and STDs in correctional facilities. Currently, he
is the Western Pennsylvania State Representative for the National Academic
Advising Association. In addition, he is a founding member and previous
executive board member of the Criminal Justice Organization and the Criminal
Justice Club at Penn State Altoona.
Please visit Mr. Kelly's personal web page at
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sak229/ for additional
information on the criminal justice program and program forms.
Mary Ann Probst, Esquire
E-mail:
map141@psu.edu
Attorney Probst received her Bachelor of Science degree from Penn State in administration of
justice and her Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law. She joined the Criminal Justice
Program at
Penn State Altoona in 2000. Attorney Probst’s teaching interests are comprised of
criminal law, criminal procedure, courtroom procedures, and legal research and writing. She is attorney advisor to Penn State
Altoona's Mock Trial Team, a member of the Blair County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, as well as Chairperson of the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, member of the Board of Governors for the Blair County Bar Association,
and Treasurer of the Blair County Bar Association.
David R.
Satka, M.S.
E-mail: drs31@psu.edu
Mr. Satka joined the Criminal Justice Program at Penn State Altoona in 1999
after working in the same capacity for three other colleges across the country.
Mr. Satka received both his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in criminology
from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. Mr. Satka has eight years
of experiences as a former Federal Bureau of Prisons administrator and as a
Reserve Officer in the U.S. Army Military Police Corp prior to pursuing a career
in education. His teaching interests include penology, prison administration,
and criminology.
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